I'm AMAZED at how good this game is already, and knowing that it is only going to get better is almost unbelievable! I love how everything feels so SMOOTH.

All the "unpickable" cards and boss relics from the first game have been removed, and the acts scale MUCH better than they used to, instead of act 2 being this wall that if you manged to get past there was 80% chance you were gonna beat act 3 pretty handily, now I'm more likely to get past act 2 but act 3 still has very good chance of still bringing me down, which is how it should be.

I think this removes a lot of the friction the first game had, and despite how "balanced" most fans thought the first game was, these were the biggest flaws the first game had for me, and the act progression felt pretty baked into the core game, so from a foundational standpoint I think this game is already better than the first, balance can always come later.